Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland

This blog gets heavy traffic from people within the State of Maryland but also from visitors who apparently plan to spend the Christmas holy day here in the State or its environs. I am dismayed that there does not appear to be any "formal" site which lists such things as links to Parish Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Masses within the Archdiocese. I suppose that if someone was going to visit Parkville, MD, they would have to go to MassTimes.org site (see the header where a link is provided) and check to see what the Christmas Masses would be in that area using the listed websites to ascertain the times, etc. I have posted a link here This is to an earlier post and is meant to be a listing of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day TLM Masses in this vicinity . If you are a Pastor, priest or deacon and have a Parish website, I invite you to post a Comment to this link above with full details . Notice that you must provide a name (it can be a pseudonym like "Fr. T....

Father Michael P. Orsi writes a serious and very necessary article in the June edition of " Homiletic & Pastoral Review entitled, " Calumny in the blogosphere ." It is something that is often left unsaid, but the implications of this sin can be profound. His advice to Pastors and priests is worthy of wide broadcast. Father Orsi states the matter succinctly. Here is one segment of his article: Sad to say, Christian circles are not free of such machinations. A recent occurrence in my own diocese serves as an example. Allegations of moral lapses on the part of a brother priest were circulated by interlinked blogs, magnifying the actual facts of the case being investigated, and layering on multiple rumors that featured a colorful variety of imagined illicit behaviors—all before anything was proven. While a ministry was seriously (perhaps fatally) compromised, no allowance was given for the political conflicts existing within the parish or the motives of those who s...